ChessUp vs Opening Edge
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ChessUp
This app enhances your chess experience with a smart chessboard. It offers game archives, analysis, and live AI assistance. Connect to play remote opponents on various platforms.
- Chess game archives
- Game analysis
- Live AI assistance
- Remote opponent play
- BLE connectivity
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ChessUp is a companion app for the ChessUp smart chessboard. The app provides chess game archives and analysis. The app can link with the chessboard over BLE to provide live Ai assistance. The app can also provide an internet connection for the board in order to play remote chess opponents on various chess platforms.
Opening Edge
Discover chess openings tailored to your playing style. Input your preferences like aggressiveness and tactical play to get personalized recommendations. Explore alternatives and understand why each opening suits you.
- Personalized chess opening recommendations
- Recommendations for White and Black
- Match openings to playing style
- Clear explanations for recommendations
- Alternative opening suggestions
- Clean and easy-to-use interface
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Opening Edge helps you discover chess openings that match your playing style. Choose White or Black, adjust your playing preferences, and get personalized opening recommendations based on factors like aggressiveness, risk tolerance, tactical vs. positional play, complexity, and more. Each recommendation includes a match score, an explanation of why the opening fits your style, and alternative openings to explore.
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Verdict
ChessUp and Opening Edge both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Opening Edge's written reviews are positive against 54% of ChessUp's. Opening Edge also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks). ChessUp's advantage is ratings volume (2.7K vs 6) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for ChessUp against 4.8 for Opening Edge. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ChessUp has 2.7K ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 54% of ChessUp's written reviews are positive against 100% of Opening Edge's.
ChessUp ships an update every 2 weeks, Opening Edge weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ChessUp | Opening Edge |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (2.7K ratings) | 4.8 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 54.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2.7K — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 218 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bryght Labs Inc. | Eric Winchell |
Customer experience
ChessUp
Opening Edge
Bugs and requests
ChessUp
Reported bugs
6 issues- Moves not registering
- Bluetooth connectivity issues
- Crashes and freezes
- Sync issues between app and board
- Lessons not working properly
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- Chess.com integration problems
Requested features
5 requests- Add chess openings lessons
- Implement position setup and export/import
- Add post-game review mechanism
- Improve AI difficulty scaling
- Add chess puzzles
Opening Edge
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
ChessUp
No in-app purchases
Opening Edge
No in-app purchases
Questions
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